Vintage Clarity Challenge

Good Morning All!!

I hope you are enjoying a lovely lazy Sunday morning??

Well I guess summer is over? 1st of September and kids are back at school this week. (bound to have a heatwave again now!)I will be off to enroll on my college Art and Spanish Courses this week and am even thinking about doing a GCSE in Psychology......we will see if the brain still works!!! 

Meanwhile over in the world of Clarity, 1st September means a brand new challenge over at the Claritystamp Challenge BLOG

Thank you so much for all the FABBY entries last month - they were awesome! Well done producing such fantastic work everyone! 

Tying to choose my favourites proved a real challenge!!

So this month it's ....VINTAGE......

I love vintage style but don't Get to play nearly often enough!! I wanted to keep this Pretty though and took inspiration from the Fabulously talented Emma Williams I am always in awe of the way she uses colour in such a striking way.

This project started life as a tag that had been lying on my desk for ages that had mopped up ink in the past. I then built up the layers with the masking, stamping and embossing before adding the texture with torn. The main image is embossed and water coloured.

The background is stamped in a faux watercolour style simply ink up your image with Distress Ink and then lightly spritz with water before stamping. It adds a lovely softness to your images. 

On this project I used the following products the Trellis mask, Fleur de Lys, The Leafy Swirls and The Sketched Lady

So it's time to get your thinking cap on!!!

Check out all the other wonderful projects by the rest of the Clarity Challenge DT HERE 

Good Luck - can't wait to see what you all come up with!!

Crafty Cheers for now :-)

Love

Rae

xxx

John Glossop Workshop....

Well good morning all!!

Congratulations once again to Gillian (Lee) for winning last weeks Give away - I am hoping to have another give away soon so watch this space :-)

Apologies again for my absence from here the last couple of weeks! Terrible aren't i

I have been super busy work wise and quite simply ran out of hours in the day! It has been a fab time though.

So I am having a couple of hours this morning scheduling up several posts for the next week or so :-)

As those of you that follow me on FB  know i went on a workshop with John Glossop last week and this is what we created.....

The old Ikea mirrors got an outing with this and were turned into this lovely textured frame.

Lots of paper, lots of acrylic paint and then the meltpot came out and beeswax was used for the 3d texture and fixing the tissue papers. Finishing touches included Mica and Gilding wax.

The large butterfly is from Tim Holtz and was mounted on to the weaved card background that replaced the usual mirror and then the frame was finished off with stamping and these (dreaded lol!) flowers- those that know me do know I have a bad track record and short fuse making these flowers lol - they always seem to cause me trauma of one sort or another lolol!!

It was a great class and I thoroughly recommend catching one of John's classes/demo days!

I hope you have enjoyed today's offering - I would love to know what you think!

Have a good day everyone!

Crafty cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx

Happy Independence Day...

Good morning Everyone. 

This is just a quick drop in to say Happy Independence Day!! 

Today I am sharing this card I made using the fabulous Darkroom door New York vol 1 and Artistic outpost Route 66 stamps and of course masks by Splodgeaway and Andy Skinner.

The flag I made myself as I didn't have one to hand....

I had a bit of fun taking photos of this n got some wicked images.....

Just how cool is this.....!!!
Taken in negative - I need to replicate this somehow.... 

.....and this one is posterised.....


















Well that's it for today short and sweet.....I am off prepping for classes and keenly awaiting the arrival of this much needed heatwave!!!

Check back over the weekend for the long overdue giveaway I promised!!!

Crafty cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx